Silver Bow, MT  Biography - John H. McQueeney

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“Progressive Men of Montana,” by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, published by A.W. Bowens & Co., 
Chicago, about 1902 (no copyright).  Page 735:

	JOHN H. McQUEENEY --- Among the representative citizens of Montana’s metropolis
 is Mr. McQueeney, who has conducted an extensive transfer business in Butte for years and 
who is the owner of valuable real estate and mining interests.  He was born in the beautiful city 
of New Haven, Conn., on November 30, 1843.  He comes of stanch Irish lineage, his father, 
Patrick McQueeney, having been born in the Emerald Isle, when he emigrated to the United
 States about 1840, locating in New Haven, from which city he removed to Chicago in 1854, 
and there devoted the remainder of his life principally to mercantile pursuits.  His wife, whose 
maiden name was Catherine McHugh, was likewise a native of Ireland, where their marriage 
was solemnized and her death occurred in Chicago in 1896.  They had eight children, of whom 
John H. was the second and he is the only one now living.

	To the excellent schools of Chicago John H. McQueeney is indebted for his early 
education, and later he completed a course in the Bryant & Stratton Business College in that 
city.  He then secured a position in the manufactory of the Coxe inks and extracts, and thereafter 
he was employed in various capacities in Chicago until 1879, when he himself engaged in the 
manufacture of extracts, this being his initial business venture.  His business adaptability, however, 
soon created a demand for her services in other ways, and he came to the west in the employ of 
the Utah & Northern Railroad, as cashier, following the line of construction from Utah into Montana.  
Severing his connection with the company in the spring of 1883 he located in Butte, and engaged in 
the transfer business, and with this line of enterprise, he has since been continuously identified, his 
business growing with the growth of the city and being now of extensive scope and importance and 
one which has been managed with financial ability from the first.  Mr. McQueeney has the distinction 
of having been the first to erect a house in South Butte, or rather to establish one there, for the house 
was built at Blackfoot while he was employed on the railroad.  It was put together with bolts, and as 
the line of the road advanced the house was taken apart and brought on the construction train to 
various points until it was permanently stationed in South Butte.  Mr. McQueeney is essentially a 
business man and he has accumulated valuable realty in Butte, Chicago and South Butte, including
 improved business and residence properties.  He has also made and now has large investments and 
holdings in mining properties.

	In politics he renders the Democratic party an unequivocal support and though he gives 
active aid to the party he has been averse to serving in any official capacity, though he held with 
ability the important office of chairman of the board of county commissioners of Silver Bow county 
from 1889 to 1893 and rendered valuable service to the county and the city of Butte.  Fraternally he 
is identified with Freemasonry, as a member of Silver Bow Lodge, Deer Lodge Chapter and Montana 
Commandery, of Butte, and of Algeria Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Helena.  On July 9, 1873, Mr. 
McQueeney was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Daly, who was born in Lockport, Ill., to which 
state her parents removed about 1837, among the pioneers of that commonwealth.  Mr. and Mrs. 
McQueeney have two children, Estella, wife of M.V. Conroy, of Butte, and Frederick, a student in 
the Butte high school.

MONTANA DEATH INDEX 1920-1929:

McQUEENEY, John H.			McQUEENEY, Isabella
Died:  03 Jul 1923 at 80 years of age		Died:  10 Nov 1922 at 71 years of age
Index #: Bt 2727				Index #: 2323